{"id":143686,"date":"2022-08-06T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/twitter-confirms-zero-day-used-to-expose-data-of-5-4-million-accounts"},"modified":"2022-08-06T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:22:41","slug":"twitter-confirms-zero-day-used-to-expose-data-of-5-4-million-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/twitter-confirms-zero-day-used-to-expose-data-of-5-4-million-accounts","title":{"rendered":"Twitter confirms zero-day used to expose data of 5.4 million accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twitter-confirms-zero-day-used-to-expose-data-of-5-4-million-accounts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users\u2019 accounts, allowing a threat actor to compile a list of 5.4 million user account profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, BleepingComputer spoke to a threat actor who said that they were able to create a list of 5.4 million Twitter account profiles using a vulnerability on the social media site.<\/p>\n<p>This vulnerability allowed anyone to submit an email address or phone number, verify if it was associated with a Twitter account, and retrieve the associated account ID. The threat actor then used this ID to scrape the public information for the account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users\u2019 accounts, allowing a threat actor to compile a list of 5.4 million user account profiles. Last month, BleepingComputer spoke to a threat actor who said that they were able to create [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}